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Neutron detection efficiency and response functions of a thin neutron silicon sensor with low gamma-ray sensitivity
- Source :
- Radiation Measurements. 106:585-590
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- Response functions of a 60-μm thick neutron silicon sensor to 8-MeV neutrons were obtained experimentally and simulated using a Monte Carlo code. The simulation reproduced the experimental results well, however it was found that the discrepancy was due to insufficient treatment of energy deposition process of both alpha particles and 25Mg nuclei emitted simultaneously from the 28 Si(n,α)25Mg reaction. Here, experimental detection efficiencies were well simulated, within 14% difference for neutron energies of 1.1, 2.5, 5, 8, and 15 MeV. An optimized neutron detection efficiency curve of the neutron sensor by weighting high energy contribution was in good agreement with an ambient-dose-equivalent curve, within a factor of 2 at neutron energies from 2.5 to 100 MeV.
- Subjects :
- Bonner sphere
Physics
Radiation
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Nuclear Theory
Neutron stimulated emission computed tomography
Neutron scattering
01 natural sciences
Neutron temperature
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
Computational physics
Nuclear physics
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
0103 physical sciences
Neutron cross section
Neutron detection
Neutron
Neutron reflectometry
Nuclear Experiment
Instrumentation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13504487
- Volume :
- 106
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Radiation Measurements
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........09765d9eb993f1bccd8dcada58d7edfd